- Barbara Serra
Infobox journalist
name= Barbara Serra
birthname= Barbara Serra
birth_date= birth date and age|1975|01|01
birth_place=Milan ,Italy
occupation= journalist,News presenter
education =London School of Economics City University, London
spouse =
credits =Sky News ,BBC Radio 4 ,Five News ,Al Jazeera Barbara Serra (born 1975 in
Milan ) is an Italian-born British-basedjournalist and TV newsreader, who presents from London onAl Jazeera .Career
Born in Milan to Italian parents, she was raised in
Copenhagen from the age of nine. As a result, Serra is multi-lingual, with a native language of Italian, secondary languages of English and Danish, and is fluent in French.In 1993, she moved to the UK to read International Relations at the
London School of Economics , and then trained as a journalist via a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism atCity University, London . [ [http://www.tvz.tv/newsfile/2006/april/barbaraserra.html Barbara Serra joins Al Jazeera International ] ]Serra's journalistic career started at the
BBC , where she worked her way up from a researcher, spending three years working as a producer/presenter forBBC London News , produced on Radio 4's "Today programme " and regularly presented EuroNews onBBC Radio Five Live . Her most challenging on-air moment was having to improvise a 5 minute radio bulletin without any scripts due to a technical mishap.In 2003, she joined
Sky News as a reporter, working on both domestic and international assignments. Serra covered a wide range of stories, from the death ofPope John Paul II in Rome, to theMichael Jackson trial in California.In July 2005, as part of a Sky News deal to deliver
Five News , she became presenter of the evening News on four nights on Five. She left Five News in April 2006, when it was announced that Serra had joinedAl Jazeera English as one of its London-based news presenter. She also reports on news events from across Europe [ [http://www.ameinfo.com/82117.html Al Jazeera International announces Barbara Serra | Appointments ] ]Personal life
In early 2007, Serra became engaged to lawyer Mark Austin and they got married on 5 July 2008 in Sardinia [ [http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/article1719269.ece Newsreader motors along on free credit - Times Online ] ]
She is good friends with the "Money Saving Expert", Martin Lewis, as they were both at LSE. [ [http://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/?p=148 My best mate’s on the telly! : Martin's Blog ] ]
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